Santa Story: Why Won't Santa Visit Poor Children?
A Santa Claus Christmas Story With a Difference
The world of Santa Claus, or Father Christmas as "he" is mostly called in the UK, has always been one of snow and ice, gifts and a family holiday by the fireside. For Western children, mostly gifts spring to mind. Over recent decades "Christmas" has become a festival of gluttony, material frenzy, giving as a duty, hyperstress in the stores, piles of extra debt, and resultant spikes in separations and divorce. Was that really supposed to be what "Christmas" was all about?
There comes a time when we all have to stand back and review our world, and just maybe the young children who have never been caught up in the full glitter of a modern Christmas can provide an insight to giving that we Westerners have come close to forgetting; to forgetting not just at Christmas but throughout the year.
This Santa Claus story, or Father Christmas story to those British compatriots who still prefer that name, is set in a tropical land, a rain forest edge in the Philippines, that is steeped in a poverty that few Western children could really comprehend. The location and climate alone set this story apart from the run of the mill seasonal stories. For those who go on to read "Why Won't Santa Visit Poor Children?" I do hope it touches your heart and opens your eyes just that little bit more.
Roy Thomsitt
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